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Medium Returns

NBC's Emmy-winning Medium returns at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Wednesday, November 15 with a two-hour season premiere, "Four Dreams," which will feature guest star Thomas Jane, the real-life husband of star Patricia Arquette.

Jane will play Clay Bicks, an old lover of Allison's (Arquette), a danger-loving photographer who, in the moment after his own death, is delivered to Allison's door, unaware that he has died.

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I am delighted to see Medium finally on the schedule again. I like the series very much, and have missed it this season. I just discovered that Thomas Jane shares my birthday, January 29.

Source: SciFi.com

La Femme Nikita 5th Season on DVD

The fifth and final season of La Femme Nikita, one of my all time favorite television series, will be released on DVD on October 19, 2006. It will sell for $39.98, as it was a short season, unfortunately.

The fourth season will be released on DVD July 25, 2006, and is now available on Netflix to be added to your queue.

Source: tvshowsondvd.com

Medium On DVD

The first season of Medium, the NBC supernatural series, will be released on DVD on June 13, 2006. The second season will be released in September, timed to arrive concurrently with the third season premiere.

Source: tvshowsondvd.com

24 To Be a Movie

TVSquad posted recently that the Fox series 24 will have a movie version, which is currently in the planning stages. The film will be made in London. There is no release date as yet, and filming has not yet begun.

This is wonderful news.

Source: tvsquad.com

The Prisoner Returns

A remake of the cult-classic The Prisoner, which aired on ITV from 1967 until early 1968, is being planned by the British channel, Sky One. It will run for six episodes next year, which is the 40th anniversay of the series. The remake will stick to the original format of the series: a retired government agent is sent to a retirement center called The Village, where he attempts to figure out where he is, and why he is there.

I liked this series very much and enjoyed seeing Patrick McGoohan it it. Hope the remake lives up to the original.

Source: tvsquad.com

Invasion Coming to DVD

Invasion, my favorite of the new science fiction series from this past season, is coming to DVD on August 22, in six discs with all 22 episodes. There will be fifty minutes of extras, and the set will cost $59.98.

I really liked this series, so of course it has been cancelled. So what if it was "slow moving"; can't we take a little time to become familiar with the material we see on television? This series was well written, well acted, and beautifully produced. Seems the attention span of the average American television viewer is so miniscule it can only be engaged by the reality shows I so deplore.

Source: tvshowsondvd.com

JackTracker

The JackTracker is an elegant new Google maps mashup tracking the locations of Jack Bauer, the lead character of the television series 24. This map and accompanying notes provide a fascinating look at the locations Jack has visited around the Los Angeles area, where the show is set.

If you are a 24 fan, take a look at this. Even if you have never seen the show, look at the map as a fine example of a Google maps mashup.

Source: Googlemapsmania

Cold Case Springsteen Episode

Tonight, CBS's hit series Cold Case. aired a special episode written around eight of Bruce Springsteen's hit songs of the 1980s. The episode told the story of a group of 1980 classmates in a series of flash backs to their lives since their high school days.

The flash backs were written from ideas taken from the eight of Springsteen's songs selected for the episode. The songs used were: No Surrender; Bobbie Jean; Brilliant Disguise; Glory Days; I'm On Fire; Drive All Night; Stolen Car; and Atlantic City.

The story written from and around the ideas expressed in the songs made this the best episode of Cold Case I have ever seen, not to speak of hearing the music again. In the episode finale, Springsteen sings One Step Up, while we are shown scenes of the series characters remembering events of their pasts and how they relate these events to their current lives.

Excellent episode. Well written, acted and directed. TV Guide says this episode is unlikely ever to appear on DVD, as the rights to the music are so very expensive. Cold Case is one of my favorite current series, and I love Springsteen.

This is an imaginative and unique idea for television, beautifully done. Brilliant Disguise is one of my favorite Springsteen songs..

 

Apple to Sell Downloadable Television

Apple has announced the availability of downloadable episodes of the television series Lost and Desperate Housewives.

The episodes will have no commercials included and sell for $1.99 each. Currently, the selection is limited only to ABC shows, Disney programs and music videos. The shows can be downloaded in about twenty minutes, per Apple, and can be viewed on an iPod, on a television through a special iPod cable, or on a computer through iTunes.

I liked last Wednesday's episode of Lost so much, I may download it just to try the service, and to keep the episode.

Medium (2/2)

Last night's episode of Medium was an interesting one. Allison (Patricia Arquette) woke with a song playing in her head, left over from a dream. The song was "I Will Survive" and it was playing very loud in her head, so loud she could not hear, unless people spoke very loudly. Her family's comments to her at breakfast were shown in sub-titles.

She went to the university campus to consult someone about it, but found the person was not working. She then left the building, still hearing the song, and began walking about the campus. The song noise lessened when she moved a certain way. She followed this change off the path where she was walking, and found a damaged IPod in the weeds. She checked the IPod and found the name of a young woman who had been reported missing earlier that day.

She had been asked to help find this young woman by her father and her priest, who were friends of her boss. When she shook hands with the priest, she heard the song even louder and sensed that he knew something about the girls' disappearance, but when she tried to tell her boss, he did not want to hear it.

She and husband Joe (Jake Weber) were to attend her sister's third wedding in another state and did not want to drive with all three children. They decided to fly, but Alison had a dream of the plane crashing, and Joe dead, hanging from a tree.

Joe tried to talk her out of canceling the flight, but then changed his mind when Bridget (Maria Lark) told him she had the same dream. They did end up driving to the wedding, but had to stop in a motel for the night, where baby Marie developed a fever. When Allison left to find a drugstore, her car broke down on a country road, which matched the scene in her dream about the plane crash.

She could find no one home at the farm house, but found in the barn a model train scenario, and a toy plane on the floor, which she stepped on and broke. When the table holding the trains began shaking, she heard someone calling for help, moved the table, and found the missing girl alive.

I missed the first episode of the new season last week, so was looking forward to seeing this one. I wasn't disappointed. This was as good as the first season eposodes. Well written and acted, with an interesting main plot, and the extremely well done and realistic secondary story of the family's life.

The children have grown, and are beautiful little girls. Maria Lark is delightful as Bridget, with her tangled blonde curls, big eyes, and wonderful husky voice. Baby Marie is beginning to talk, and said a few recognizable words in this episode. This baby girl is really beautiful, almost etherial.